What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?
Karl KrausA white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
Karl KrausIt so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
Karl KrausHumanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?
Karl KrausThe heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.
Karl Kraus